Exodus 2:1-17

2:1

household <01004> [A.M. 2432. B.C. 1572. of the house.]

2:2

saw <07200> [A.M. 2433. B.C. 1571. she saw.]

2:3

longer able <03201 05750> [could not.]

basket <08392> [an ark.]

papyrus <01573> [bulrushes.]

{Gom‚,} is the papyrus, so famous in all antiquity. It grows on the banks of the Nile, and in marshy grounds; the stalk rises to the height of six or seven cubits above the water, is triangular, and terminates in a crown of small filaments, resembling hair. This reed was of the greatest use to the Egyptians; the pith serving them for food, and the woody part to build vessels with; which vessels frequently appear on various monuments of Egyptian antiquity. That boats were made of this reed is also attested by Pliny and others.

bitumen <02564> [with slime.]

2:4

2:5

daughter <01323> [daughter.]

Nile ......... river <02975> [herself.]

As the word herself is not in the original, Dr. A. Clarke is of opinion that it was for the purpose of washing, not her person, but her clothes, that Pharaoh's daughter came to the river; which was an employment not beneath even king's daughters in those primitive times.

saw <07200> [when she.]

2:6

compassion <02550> [she had compassion.]

2:7

2:8

<03212> [Go.]

mother <0517> [mother.]

2:10

son <01121> [and he.]

Moses <04872> [Moses. Drawn out. Because.]

2:11

Moses <04872> [A.M. 2473. B.C. 1531. Moses.]

hard labor <05450> [burdens.]

2:12

looked <06437> [he looked.]

attacked <05221> [slew.]

If the Egyptian killed the Hebrew, Moses only acted agreeably to the divine law (Ge 9:6) in thus slaying the Egyptian; nor did he violate the law of Egypt; for, according to Diodorus Siculus (1. 1.  17), "he who saw a man killed, or violently assaulted on the highway, and did not rescue him, if he could, was punished with death." Moses, therefore, in this transaction, acted as a brave and good man; especially as at this time there was little probability of obtaining justice on an Egyptian murderer.

2:13

said <0559> [and he said.]

2:14

made <07760> [Who.]

ruler <08269> [a prince. Heb. a man, a prince.]

Moses <04872> [Moses.]

2:15

fled <01272> [fled.]

Midian <04080> [Midian.]

settled ......... settled <03427> [sat down.]

2:16

priest <03548> [the priest. or, prince.]

came <0935> [they came.]

2:17

shepherds <07462> [shepherds.]

watered <08248> [watered.]